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The early church fathers were great theologians--though they did not think of themselves as such. They were working pastors, involved in the daily life and leadership of their congregations. Yet they were wrestling with many of the great and formative questions of the Christian faith, such as the Trinity, the incarnation, the providence of God and the nature of the church. These beliefs were...

existence. In fact, every human son ‘did not exist before he was begotten.’ ” 2. How can the Son be the Word, or the Word be the image of God?13 Human “speech is a combination of syllables,” signifying a speaker’s meaning as one speaks that meaning into the air. The words did not exist before the speaker chose to speak them, and they cease to exist once they have been uttered. How, then, Arian thinkers ask, can God’s Word always exist and continue to exist once it has been spoken? No human analogies
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